Michael Workman

Michael Workman is an artist, writer, reporter, and sociocultural critic, whose bylines have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Guardian US, Newcity magazine, WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, and many other national and international publications. He is the former Chicago correspondent for renowned Italian art magazine Flash Art. Workman is also Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of Bridge (bridge-chicago.org), a Chicago-based 501 (c) (3) publishing and programming organization since 1999.

Workman is also Development Officer of the Kyiv-Mohyla Foundation of America and the Development Coordinator of the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art (UIMA). His grant writing work has won several prestigious awards, including the Wynn-Kramarsky Freedom of Artistic Expression award from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts on behalf of UIMA and, in 2024, he wrote the proposal that resulted in the recognition of Ukrainian Village as a state-designated cultural district.

His choreographic writing has been included in Propositional Attitudes, an "anthology of recent performance scores, directions and instructions" published by Golden Spike Press, and his Perfect Worlds: Artistic Forms & Social Imaginaries, the first in a 3-volume series, was released by StepSister Press in October 2018 with a day-long program of performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.

Most recently, in 2023 he presented Active Investigation, a performance combining restructured texts, place, literary history and phonemic poetics at the Neubauer Collegium at the University of Chicago. He is a 2025 Illinois Arts Council Creative Projects grant and Rabkin Foundation travel grant recipient, the Fall 2025 Joan and Peter Hood Artist-in-Residence at the Allerton Park & Retreat Center in Monticello, Illinois and a 2026–2027 Illinois Humanities Road Scholar Speakers Bureau member. michaelworkmanstudio.com

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